U-Report PakAvaz is UNICEF’s flagship program in Pakistan. U-Report is a free SMS-based system that allows young Pakistanis to speak out on issues within communities across the country and work together with other community leaders for positive change. Establishing U-Report in Pakistan initially, we selected thirty young individuals between the […]

Originally posted on ponabana.com on February 26, 2015 by James Kataliko. Click here to see the original post, or to read this in French James, a scout from North Kivu, tells us about his commitment to the U-Report project, a completely free sms system that gives voice to young Congolese on issues […]

Originally published February 9, 2015 on Business Wire. To see original release, click here. SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Idibon announces a collaboration with UNICEF to provide scalable natural language processing and analytics to their U-report applications. U-report applications leverage UNICEF’s open source RapidPro platform, which empowers governments to deliver valuable real-time information and connect communities to available […]

Originally published on CCTV News February 1, 2015. Click here to view the full news segment. Hear how teenagers are using uReport via their mobile phones to share their voices and opinions about life after Ebola. Teens who have survived Ebola now have to overcome a long list of difficult […]

By Laura Raney (Co-Founder – mHealth Working Group) and Sean Blaschke (UNICEF) Participants at the inaugural Global mHealth Forum, co-located with the mHealth Summit in DC, held during the week of December 8th in Washington DC, discussed a number of pressing public health opportunities, issues, and challenges – including emerging […]

Originally published on CNN.com on November 13, 2014 by Alex Court And in Nigeria a system called UReport has been praised for de-bunking myths about Ebola. Developed by UNICEF, the technology allows citizens to ask questions and get replies in real-time. The added feature is that users can re-broadcast those […]

By Evan Wheeler (@evmw) and Stuart Campo (@stucampo) from Monrovia, Liberia You can learn an incredible amount about a person in just 160 characters. In the three weeks since UNICEF launched U-report in Liberia, a total of 7,000 SMS — or roughly 1,120,000 characters — have been received through the platform. […]

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